gumbo
Nouns
- (n) any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water gumbo soil,
- (n) tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus, lady's-finger, okra plant, okra,
- (n) long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews okra,
- (n) a soup or stew thickened with okra pods